Manuscripts

William Rich Hutton Papers

Description

The collection contains 96 drawings, 14 original letters, and 39 facsimiles of letters and manuscripts.

The illustrative material includes both watercolor and pencil drawings of California (including Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco, the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine, and the California Missions), Baja California, Mexico, and Peru. The ones in color are noted below in the container list. One of the drawings is a facsimile (FAC 1010).

The majority of letters by William Rich Hutton are written to his uncle William Rich and his mother Salome Rich Hutton. There is also some correspondence between William Rich Hutton and his brother James D. Hutton. There are also letters by author María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (these letters are in Spanish), California Governor Persifor Frazer Smith, and Henry Wager Halleck. Some subjects of the correspondence include: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Benjamin Davis Wilson, Edward Otho Cresap Ord, William Goodwin Dana and his Nipomo Ranch (Dana Adobe), the New Almaden Mine, geologist Louis Agassiz, Henry H. Burton, Jessie Benton Frémont, and the Civil War in Washington DC and Baltimore. There are several facsimiles of manuscripts by William Rich Hutton, mostly anecdotes about his time in California.

Note: FAC 1010 is physically located after drawing #32.

Type

Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)

Date

1840-1861

Call number

mssHuttonw

Creator

Hutton, Wm. R (1826-1901)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift and purchase from Mary A. Hutton, 1939-1946.

Photostat (FAC 817) from John J. Lynch, City Clerk, San Jose, CA, December 26, 1939.

Photostat (FAC 1010) from California Historical Society, San Francisco.

Associated people

Halleck, H. W. (1815-1872.)

Hutton, James D. (1800-1864.)

Rich, William, (1832-1895.)

Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, (1798-1858.)

Smith, Persifor Frazer,

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